MEGA 1KG BURGER

Restau­rant chal­lenges lo­cals to try 1kg cre­ation with the lot

WHEN it comes to burg­ers, big­ger is al­ways bet­ter – and ev­ery­thing is big­ger in the west.

Known as the Rooty Burger, Rooty Hill RSL’s new­est food cre­ation is so big it takes four peo­ple to just hold it.

Not for the faint-hearted, the 1kg burger in­cludes 10 rash­ers of ba­con, an 800g beef patty as well as four eggs, let­tuce, onion, tomato and melted cheese, all on an olive bread bun.

The burger alone equates to almost 4500 calo­ries (18,828 kilo­joules), which is dou­ble the av­er­age daily in­take for an adult. This doesn’t in­clude the gen­er­ous side serv­ing of onion rings and bucket of chips.

Since its in­tro­duc­tion via video last week on The Stan

dard Face­book page, the Rooty Burger has gone vi­ral with more than 40,000 views.

Some lo­cals with mega ap­petites seem up for the chal­lenge of down­ing the burger.

Mar­garet Simp­son asked: “Can I take it home? It would do for break­fast, lunch and din­ner for a week.”

Tayla Brown said: “I’m sad this is around the cor­ner and we haven’t tried it yet.”

Oth­ers were more ap­pre­hen­sive, say­ing the burger was a heart at­tack wait­ing to hap­pen.